Dining for the diamond

'Chili Chowdown' to benefit baseball squad

Although Dan Hooten, left, is a cabinet major at Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School, teacher Mark Sansoucy is showing him cooking basics. The baseball team, which Hooten is a pitcher on and Sansoucy is a coach, will be having a “Chili Chowdown” from 4 to 6 p.m. on Sunday, March 27. (click for larger version)

March 21, 2011

Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School culinary teacher Mark Sansoucy is working hard on turning a cabinetmaker into a chef.

The Bay Path baseball team will host its first "Chili Chowdown" from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday, March 27. Twenty-one different restaurants and chefs from Central Massachusetts will offer their finest chili with the proceeds going to the baseball team.

"All the places are bringing their own different kinds of chili," said Sansoucy, also the Bay Path baseball coach. "The chili we are making is buffalo chicken chili. People are making venison, vegetarian, all kinds. People think there is just beef and beans, but there is so much more to that. When people come, they are really going to be impressed."

Each restaurant will have its own table, which will contain information about the restaurant. Currently, restaurants from Worcester, Sterling, Charlton, Leicester, Oxford, Sturbridge, Boylston, Northborough and Auburn are taking part.

For more on this story, please see tomorrow's Southbridge Evening News.